Joana Mallwitz

 

Joana Mallwitz has also enjoyed great success at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Frankfurt Opera, and the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen. She is a regular guest conductor with major orchestras around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

 

In the 2025/26 season, she will open the Baden-Baden Easter Festival with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and a new production of Richard Wagner's “Lohengrin.” This marks the beginning of a multi-year collaboration with the festival and the orchestra. She will also return to the Zurich Opera House with Richard Strauss's “Der Rosenkavalier,” opening the first season of the new artistic director.

 

Joana Mallwitz is an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. She was awarded the OPUS Klassik prize for Conductor of the Year for her CD “The Kurt Weill Album,” which she recorded together with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Together with the new artistic director Tobias Rempe, the successful collaboration at the Konzerthaus Berlin will continue in the new season. In addition to the subscription concerts, a recording of Joseph Haydn's “The Creation” and a European tour including Hamburg, Linz, and Cologne are also planned.

 

Joana Mallwitz was the youngest female general music director in Europe when she joined the Erfurt Theatre in the 2014/15 season. After four successful years, she moved to the Nuremberg State Theatre in 2018 in the same role. There, she brought numerous productions, concerts and formats to great national attention and was honoured as ‘Conductor of the Year’ after their first season together in 2019. The ‘Expedition Concerts’ she initiated, as well as the Orchestra Academy founded in Erfurt and the Junge Staatsphilharmonie founded in Nuremberg, are still resounding success stories today. In April 2024, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic appointed Joana Mallwitz ‘Honorary Conductor’ - the first time this title has been awarded in the orchestra's 100-year history.

 

Born in Hildesheim, Joana Mallwitz studied at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She is a recipient of the Bavarian Constitutional Order and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the Federal President in Bellevue Palace in 2023 for her many years of work in the promotion of classical music and young talent. The documentary film ‘Joana Mallwitz - Momentum’ by Günter Atteln, which was released in spring, met with great interest from both the public and the media.

 

Joana Mallwitz lives with her family in Berlin.